1783. to "be hoped from, fuch a band o f brave fellows,7 wliom
JG.UJT. '
.unanimity, affection,- and mutual confidence, .had united, in
-one unremitting.plan of.exertion, for the prefervatiouvof
^the whole t—'The intelligent^;of (this buhnefsbeihgt fo faith-
fully performed,’ was brought this -evening,b^' the Officer
who attendee! the men,- and Who came back with the pih-
nace after darkyias before mentioned* and was, s cpnff,rm;ed
by all the Others- who aflifted 1 and if any thing, -Opjuld} .'add
to the fat-isfa&ory manner in- which it had been executed,
it was to .perceive, that, when they .all fat dpwmtq. hppe?,
the event1 did not:;|coduce: a fingle difcontented ';eoitnte~
, nance*
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A rra K ooker, ' ^ KiW s Aro/||f,: returns jMin PElEvP
MattS n,
I '-who^gMs1 ^ e fSnt ^ftie* 'Marimr sik ■
& hd had been received. — Regulations made by "tBh*
^tthrd.—W^ (rM&ral and
A rra K ooker informed of it. the Scheme,
"•which is immediately put in m ‘ — °f
A r r a K o o k e r . -
T HEynf^i morning two canoes arrived w ith yams,.-ready
b o iled , and forne cocoa-nuts, w h ich were presented to
Captain W il s o n . In one o f thefe vcfiels A r r a K oo ker,,
the Kin g ’s brother, returned ba ck, wh o brou gh t w ith h im
one o f the K in g ’s fons ; R a a K ook went immediately to receive
his nephew, and mu ch converfation feemed to pafs.
between them. A r r a K ooker informed his brother, that
three men had died o f the things- th ey had taken and drank
out o f the medic in e-ch eft; the ■ General replied, that the
Engli/b had told tpm this might be, the c o n f lu e n c e s and he
was glad th ey had fuffered for their had. condudh T h e
meffage wh ich the K in g ’s fon had b rou gh t from his father
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